1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - One-On-One with DP: October 25th, 3pm – Looking at Purdue and what HC Jeff Brohm had to say on Monday

Episode Date: October 25, 2021

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the Coppull Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, presented by Beatrice Bakery, on 93-7 The Ticket and the Ticket FM.com. Happy Monday, everybody. Lots to go through. Nick, I will correct the thing I just said. I need one of the tasties from Mark's office.

They're on his desk. Just pick one randomly. Anyone. Any one of them, and we'll talk about that. Just bring it back if you don't mind. You guys jump on, communicate. Tell me how you feel. 402, 4664-5-6-85.

That's the Honda-Lincoln hotline, the Sartre-Haman text line. You can follow us on the Sartre-Haman live video stream. Facebook, YouTube, Twitch. Got a gooden. Got a gooden for you today. Matt up Domasi, top of the hour, Jay Foreman, 5 o'clock. He should be feeling well enough to come join us back in studio tomorrow as we prepare for Purdue. Lots going on in the week.

Monday night, 6 to 8, Nicole Griffin will take us to 8 o'clock, see who she's got with her tonight. I believe that Connor is going to be with her as well. tomorrow night with Eric Strickland, Strict 9. There's a lot to talk about with him. As a matter of he wants to get ready for Husker basketball, and a lot of the conversation will take place based on that, and then he wants to fight over the NBA 75. He also wants to talk football because there's a transition in the NFL right now.

The teams that we thought were going to be really good, may be not so great. So I want to thank the folks from Beatrice Bakery, who provide goodies and sponsorship for this show. Let me see what, I'm just going to describe it. I'm not going to cut into it because I want to give it to a coach later on. But this one, it's a, and again,

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The breads that they have, the breakfast breads are different than the cakes themselves. And then, of course, the various fruit cakes. And then this one is a grandma's chocolate fruit cake, chocolate, which is, tempting little thing. They would tell you to refrigerate before serving. Slice straight with the edge. Okay, so it's good. This one, man, pecans, cherries, and chocolate and fruit cake.

Okay. That's going to be a party. That's going to be a party. If you're on the live video stream, want you take a peek, once you take a peek of things that shall be available soon. things let's just mark that as things that will be available soon and take a peek at this little darling this little humdinger yeah we like that one right we like that one right three stripes right we got you in there it's the adidas joint 937 the ticket with the new logo

Adidas skull cap as the weather changes. Yeah, we're working on that. How about that? I'm rather excited about that. Nick and Rico agree. It's a fair. That's something we're getting excited about. So where to start with this day?

I spent some time deep diving, Peru State basketball and Purdue football. Of course, Huskers basketball, they tip off exhibition style Wednesday at PBA, Wednesday night, 6 p.m. I believe tickets are still available. In what will be a display in curiosity, being able to see some of the some of the tundoms that put out there, some of the groups of five that Fred Hoiberg and company will put out on the, floor. I agree to Matt Abdomasi that I would not, I would not ask him to give the fives before Wednesday night. So I'll play nice. I will play nice. Husker football, it was an interesting day in going back in film and watching last year's Nebraska-Purdue game. And with Adrian

This was one of those flashes, Adrian flashes, where we saw the better version of Adrian. We saw him completing passes at a high percentage, making smart throws with it. And then seeing a healthy Adrian Martinez put his foot in the ground and scored three touchdowns from Purdue. What also jumped out was in the very first drive that Luke Rimer, on fourth and whatever, blocked a punt, rolled down to the one-yard line. Nebraska recovers it. And then Nebraska goes on to score. And this game was not really contested until late in the game.

Nebraska had a nice lead. They got up and scored. I think they scored 17 points in the first quarter. And then to hear Jeff Brom in his presser today, say, well, we need to get out front. We need to get out front. We need to get out front and make Nebraska throw the ball more than they want to, which, while not surprising, I found intriguing, right?

That Jepram is saying this thing that, look, purposefully, we need to get out front early so that we can disadvantage some of the of Nebraska's run game. We want them to throw against us. We want them to throw against us. Like, that's how I took it. Okay. But the surprise was that he said

that most of Nebraska's best plays were Adrian Martinez in pass drops that didn't work, and Adrian took off. And he talked about it. He was very simple. I mean, he also said, Adrian Martinez. He's been there a long time. Seems like he's big and strong. He can run around and make plays. He will hurt you running the ball. At least half of those were on pass plays.

And last year, we did not do a good job on him. That's direct from Jeff, Jeff Braun, in his presser. He goes further. They had some problems a week ago. He goes, we got exposed. We just don't see game speed at practice. When asked about his young linemen who will forced into live game scenarios in the Big Ten. He says, yeah, they've worked hard, but they have a ways to go. He goes, we've got nine or ten deep, but they're not ready. They're great kids. They're just not ready.

They have their own issues. Chris Van Ackron will be out again. Backup kickers will handle the place kicking. Sound familiar? He also went into it. Like, he went into great detail about his kicker. Like, this was, I felt bad. He goes,

on Mitchell's place kicking struggles. He said right now, Mitchell, the last couple of games, he's been in a little bit of a slump, not as consistent, lost a little bit of his confidence. He's lost his mojo. He needs to find his mojo. He also said, because they had some punt return issues, and he said, we made quite a few adjustments in personnel.

That should help fix the special teams' problems. He went in on a checklist of injured players and special teams problems and a quarterback. He's got a quarterback that doesn't want to run but needs to run in order for them to do well offensively. Again, sounds familiar. This is how simple it was. He also said about Adrian Martinez. He said, we're going to have to, we're going to have to defend them in a different way than we have in our last. two games versus our last two opponents because Martinez running skills and his past success

against Purdue. So he knows. He mentioned injuries up and down the Purdue roster. Marcus Mitchell will not play in this game. He ran through several other, you know, and mentioning is also mentioning Chris Van Ackron. But putting a spotlight on the special teams specifically in their inability to cover kicks and not having a kicker with his mojo. And all the while, I kept waiting for it to turn.

Like I kept waiting for him to speak differently about his players and about what they were. He went deeper. He said, we gave up too many sacks. A couple of times we should have taken a sack. On those plays, the interceptions hurt us. He says on defense, they did pop a few. We got out of some gaps, combined.

with some mistackles. We simply did not tackle well enough in open field. He talks about David Bell being doubled. Wisconsin was smart. They dropped eight when they knew we were going to throw. And he said a way to punish the teams that will bring an extra defender to cap your star outfit's a player, the best thing you can do is for that quarterback to take off. When they dropped eight, he said, you know, that made it difficult.

And he said, while running isn't Aiden O'Connell's game, he's been told every game that we need three or four runs from you on designed pass plays. Aiden O'Connell needs to run, even though it's not his thing. So what we get from that is they're a little leaky up front. They've had to go a little deeper into the depth chart than they want to or that they were prepared to. Young players missed some blocking assignments and some audibles that were put in play against Wisconsin. Wisconsin would show a three-front, then they'd go to a forefront, back to a three-front, and some of the miscommunication led to them getting pressure.

When pressure was applied, Aidan O'Connell sometimes made some bad decisions. They had five turnovers last week against Wisconsin. And they're aware. And he said there are times. and you just need to take the sack. It's not fair to the defense for you to put them in a short-yarded situation or on a short field or back on the field after a long drive or in another 10th situation.

So they're aware. They're aware. They felt better going into Wisconsin than the result showed. They felt worse coming out of it. They are beat up. There's no other way to put that. This Purdue team is being. up.

But that doesn't, does, I don't want to speak for you. Does that make Husker fans feel more comfortable? Are you leery or is this a movie you've seen before? Do you feel good about it? Do you feel bad about it? Or are you simply not sure? Because Jeff Brom, if you paid attention to his presser, it would have appeared that he was saying,

we're on demand, we're outgunned, we're too young. He raved about Nebraska's defense. They're big, they're physical, they're fast. They've got the system down. They fit well. But any time a coach that I've ever known said that, he had a plan. He had a plan.

Like all that stuff looks good on the billboard. Hey, look, man, they're really fast. They're really big. They're really talented. all the while plotting and having your eyes in the right place. Notice that I'm staying away from the records on this thing. I want to focus simply on this week. I don't want to talk about Nebraska's record

or what all of this means to Scott Frost and all that stuff. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not going to do that today. I'm not going to do that today. I want to focus on here's the opponent. here's where they stand. Here's what brings them to the table, right? That they had some momentum,

and then they lost a game against Wisconsin that they felt pretty good about until the beatdown side. I said everybody's got to play until they get punched in the jaw. Well, they got punched in the jaw, and they didn't handle it well. They didn't handle it well. And Jeff Brom seemed to be resolved

in that he learned more about his team last Saturday. But, but, does that give Nebraska fans comfort right does that give you comfort and if the answer is yes I'd love to know why when the answers no I'd love to know why what bothers you what sticks in your craw about about tattern this is a two-thirty game which from a preference standpoint I would I I would have preferred that this one be in a 11 o'clock game so you stick to your routine at home

and get your work in, right? That I would rather that they just go to sleep, prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, go to sleep, get up, and be prepared to stick to your routines. But that 230 kick, I kind of wish it wasn't. I kind of wish it wasn't. We'll go to the text line. Eric says, sounds like Minnesota from last year. Yeah, it does.

It does. Brett says, do not feel good at all. Look at Minnesota last year. Like, that's a big thing. Justin says, I'm less worried about Purdue than I am getting in our own way again. Well, that's the next segment. The next segment is going to focus on the things that have to be done against this Purdue team, Saturday. rather than what they've done before,

rather than the things that have snake bit them or jinxed them or cursed against them or whatever those things are. There is a way for teams who are grinding to figure out how to win. It's done every Saturday. It's done every Saturday across America. There are teams that have issues

who find a way to win. So I'll make you all coaches. and you can tell me what you would do, and we'll make a long checklist of you guys as coaches, what you demand this team does Saturday against Purdue. Like, demand it. And as, you know, Justin said, if, if, I think it's fair to say that Nebraska won't lose to Purdue without Nebraska.

Nebraska facilitating it. The only way Purdue beats Nebraska is if Nebraska helps them. And again, feel free. If I'm wrong in that, tell me. But I would like to, I certainly feel that way. That a week's rest, more time in film study, more communication. It's two weeks to figure out how to line folks up and for them to understand audibles. If you have 10 extra days, you have 10 days, if you have seven extra days to learn

audibles and learn formations and six more days for the yips to be, you know, work through, six more days of film study where you can identify, where everybody on that team can identify who they're lined up against, what their tendencies are, because the tendencies exist. They exist. You had six additional days, six more days than Purdue had. Purdue couldn't focus on you until today or yesterday. You could focus on Purdue, so everybody, everybody should have watched Wisconsin versus Purdue. I'll ask you an interesting question, fan base.

Nick, I'll ask you this question. What percentage of the Husker roster do you think? watched Wisconsin Purdue. Right? Like it should be, like it should be everybody. It should be everybody. But you guys feel free to tell me whether you think everybody watched

Purdue. Yeah, from the text line. Put six linemen in with two tight ends and run the back 25 plus times. here's what I would say to that. If you said put six linemen in and two tight ends, and remember, you have two pretty adept route running, pass catching tight ends. So you can still throw the ball.

You can still throw the ball. But Adrian Martinez would have to run some of those 25 times. Jeff Brown just told you, he's scared to death of Adrian Martinez. And it's when they drop, when they spread out. It's the spread that causes them problems, that they spread out, and the receivers run off three, four, five of those DPs. They run them off. They got their backs turned to Adrian Martinez.

They're not looking at him. So five of them are out of box, and then four of them are engaged with linemen, trying to get home, that puts Adrian in a space where he's got one guy that's scouting him and one guy, one guy that's mirroring him, stalking him, and then one guy who's kind of looking for crossers in his space. And those numbers matter for Adrian Martinez because that's where he excels. Textline says, should be confident with Purdue hurting, hurting some. And Nebraska having the by week to get healthy and to work on some things. but we have no reason to trust this team.

Okay, so again, I think what would be really cool is for you guys to think about what should be, like if the fans could just walk in to the locker room before the game and write something on the dry erase board for this team to practice with this week or for this team to see Saturday before they take the feel. I'd love to know what that would be. Eric says, don't you think Purdue will run mostly zone because of Martinez's ability to make big run plays

when things break down? If they do that, it's death by a million paper cuts. And I'm okay with that. Because I think what, here's what would happen. And that's a great, that's a great, that's a great text. Here's why. They run zone. and let's not bypass the issue that we don't know who running back one is going to be for Nebraska this week.

We don't know who running back two is going to be. Like we think we know, but we don't know. That being said, because you don't know who your downhill person is going to be, who would you assign? Because 25 plays to Ramir Johnson is different than 25 plays to Joaquin, which is different than 25 plays to save Jan Morrison, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But if they do find themselves in a zone,

right, where they feel like, because if they go zone, you can go 4-4 and create difficulty in the passing lanes. And again, only allow Adrian to make throws that Adrian doesn't want to make. But if they're willing to just drop and allow the two big tight ends and a possession receiver and the running back to flare out of the backfield, Nebraska will go from 20 to 20 or from 25 to 25 very easily.

Very easily. Minnesota's going to let them. Like, as long as you don't score a touchdown, we don't care. Like literally, I can hear the Minnesota coaches staff going, no, no, we'll keep everything in front. Zone coverage, we'll cap everything with the two safeties, but our responsibility is to be pretty simple. And then, right?

So we cap everything or we go quarters. Like we'll flip-flop between quarter's responsibility where everybody's responsible for the quarter of the field or too deep where they can put some man-type principles on certain receivers and then have two safeties to clean up the mess. But then the games would begin. Because at the 25, from 25 to 25, Nebraska is going to move the ball. because Minnesota's going to let them. And then? And then you're in the red zone. And everybody clenches up.

And the socks get a little more yellow because Nebraska has to call scoring plays in short space, which has not been very easy for them to do. Ponder that. Ponder that for a minute. from 25 to 25. Zone coverage, as long as they don't go over their heads,

Minnesota doesn't care. And then the 25-yard line and inside the 20 to the red zone, it becomes difficult. Sorry. And then you hold them and on jogs conical. That's how that looks.

Just ponder that for a minute. We'll throw the break. We'll hear from you coaches. We'll hear from you guys after the break. Download our app by searching 93.7, the ticket in your app store. You're listening to one-on-one with DP on 937 the ticket and the ticketfm.com.